Gaza Strip

Gazans need mobile homes as rain has swamped makeshift shelters and temperatures fall to 5 degrees at night

Three further hostages seized in October 2023 attack on Israel due to be freed on Saturday

As diplomats scramble to save the Gaza ceasefire, the clock is ticking down towards Saturday' scheduled hostage release

Jordan absorbed most of the 750,000 Palestinians who fled the Israeli-Arab war in 1948. A fresh influx could destabilise the country

Tánaiste says ‘radical’ amendment need on legislation to avoid EU infringement proceedings

Israel’s Netanyahu threatens to end ceasefire if Hamas does not release hostages on Saturday

Netanyahu says IDF ‘will resume intense fighting until Hamas is finally defeated’ if Israeli hostages not released by noon Saturday

The essential question for Ireland is: to grovel or not to grovel?

Three captives report having been tortured and deliberately starved, and that captors denied them water for days at a time

US fast-food chain records like for like improvement in revenue, with business in the Middle East picking up

Outlandish and utterly unacceptable as the Riviera of the Middle East plan is, it may succeed in derailing negotiations to bring a long-term end to the conflict in Gaza

Joy of some Israelis watching release turned to shock when they saw emaciated state of hostages

Worldview: Gérard Araud says the idea of fighting for democracy is completely alien to Trump

Militant group hands over Ohad Ben Ami, Eli Sharabi and Or Levy to Red Cross in Deir Al-Balah

A tariff strategy works only if there are enough domestic goods to replace the tariffed imports

Israel dismisses claims of delayed aid supplies as ‘unfounded’

From gender to Gaza, climate policy to USAID, the start of Trump’s second term as seen a deluge of orders and pronouncements overturning what has gone before

US president’s plan to expel Gazans may embolden Israeli ultranationalists bent on annexing West Bank

Israel must respect that ‘Ireland is for Irish people and Palestine is for Palestinians’, says Palestinian ambassador to Ireland

Controversy comes as figures show the number of Palestinians seeking asylum in Ireland has increased more than eightfold

US plan ‘does not mean boots on the ground in Gaza’, says White House

The president had been talking about the idea for weeks, but senior members of his government were shocked by his announcement

The timing of the order coincided with National Girls and Women in Sports Day

Claim of need to ‘start from scratch’ is to ‘avoid taking action’, Roderic O’Gorman says

Proposal involves US relocating Palestinians and redeveloping the Gaza Strip

It is one of the most dramatic U-turns in US policy in history and has enraged potential regional and international allies

Palestinians unite in their outright rejection of plan to remove residents from their own land

In the News podcast: President said US should seize control of Gaza and displace entire Palestinian population

Analysis: China and Iran among the potential beneficiaries of US president’s proposal

St Patrick’s Day visit should be cancelled if US president remains on ‘trajectory towards ethnic cleansing’, Social Democrats say

Dr Jilan Wahba Abdalmajid calls for humanitarian support, not ‘business deals’, for devastated enclave

US president’s proposal sounded like a pitch for an upmarket gated community rather than the enforced displacement of a people

The Israel leader hopes to return from Washington with significant achievements on two fronts

Critics decry Michael D Higgins speech for Holocaust Memorial Day, politicians’ stance on Gaza and the Occupied Territories Bill

Ukraine war, growing geopolitical tensions, rise of artificial intelligence and worsening climate crisis cited as factors pushing us towards global catastrophe

First two Israelis to be released by Hamas include Yarden Bibas, whose wife and children became poignant symbols of hostage crisis

West Bank at risk of even more violence, and events in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria have significantly weakened Iranian regime

The details of their ordeals vary, but all yearn for the return of the people still held captive

Ceasefire in Gaza and election of pro-Israel US president Donald Trump likely to feed into deliberations on Occupied Territories Bill

Amr al-Najjar and his cousins died in an air strike just hours before the Israel-Hamas truce took effect